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Cathar · 05-01-2005, 02:01 AM

I think people are misunderstanding the intent of the original post. Obviously the word "censorship" draws a lot of negative connotations.

The intent could perhaps be more correctly worded as:

"Should the Internet be `policed'?" For example should it be subject to illegal content such as sites that public child-porn be shut-down?

Now shutting down and removing illegal content is still an act of censorship.

So I guess it's like this:

"Should illegal content servers be shut down?"

If the answer is yes, then you do in fact support censorship, albeit it an extremely limited fashion, but is is still a form of censorship.

05-01-2005, 02:01 AM	#12
Cathar Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,538	I think people are misunderstanding the intent of the original post. Obviously the word "censorship" draws a lot of negative connotations. The intent could perhaps be more correctly worded as: "Should the Internet be `policed'?" For example should it be subject to illegal content such as sites that public child-porn be shut-down? Now shutting down and removing illegal content is still an act of censorship. So I guess it's like this: "Should illegal content servers be shut down?" If the answer is yes, then you do in fact support censorship, albeit it an extremely limited fashion, but is is still a form of censorship.